California wants to host the 2020 World Expo. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced the state’s plans to apply while visiting this year’s Expo in Shanghai.

If California submits the winning, Silicon Valley would host the
2020 World Expo. It is an international showcase of technological
and industrial developments. Schwarzenegger says California hosting
the expo would be good for California's economy.

"We know that a world expo would also bring 50, 60 million
people, visitors. That would be great for California, that will be
great for business, it will stimulate the economy, and also it will
create jobs."

Schwarzenegger says Silicon Valley is an ideal place to host
the expo because of its abundance of Fortune 1000 companies. The
governor says he'll put together a task force to oversee the
state's application as soon as he gets back to the states later
this week.